Enhancement: Translation

[TriedWharf]

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What is your suggestion, and why should it be implemented?

I want to translate Friday Night Funkin' into Portuguese.
I can do the translation myself, and all I want is my name in the credits.
Thanks!

[JVNpixels]

A spanish translation is being in the works, but I think Portuguese would be a nice translation as well!

[Hundrec]

Community-made translations sound awesome, especially considering how much slang is in this game.
I wonder how they'll manage translations, but you can still translate everything in the meantime!

[Trofem]

It would be cool if we could add additional fonts (and, perhaps bit controversial: also using not only sprite sheets of characters, but .ttf files or similar types too), as an existing file in images/font path, translate text, pictures into any language, in vslice mod format.

[EliteMasterEric]

Official support for translations is planned and will come by Steam release (or possibly before then).

I already have a system set up in Polymod in which you can specify a locales folder in which any assets will be replaced. For example, assets/locales/pt-br/data/introText.txt will automatically get loaded if the game requests the file assets/data/introText.txt and the pt-br locale is selected. This will make it possible (and relatively straightforward) for mods to implement custom locales for both the base game and for other mods.

The main obstacles to getting official translations into the main game involve, among other things, hooking up every area of the game to use text from data files rather than hard-coded text and ensuring that custom fonts either properly support localized text or utilize a fallback font when needed. It's lower on our priority list but it's definitely something we're thinking about on a regular basis.

(EDIT: Just made a label for issues which describe enhancements are planned to be worked on later in the future, since I realized we didn't have one.)